Publications

  • REFUGEES IN LIBYA – PROTESTS IN BRUSSELS

    After the collective protests in December 2022 in front of the headquarters of the UNHCR in Geneva, Refugees in Libya and the support alliance mobilized for the end of June 2023 to the European capital. “From Tripoli to Brussels –…


  • UP TO 600 PEOPLE DROWNED OFF PYLOS, GREECE
    UP TO 600 PEOPLE DROWNED OFF PYLOS, GREECE

    Only days after EU leaders agreed to further erode the right to asylum Excerpts from an open letter signed by over 180 human rights organizations and initiatives together with Tima Kurdi, aunt of Alan Kurdi.  Today on World Refugee Day,…


  • A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE SITUATION IN TUNISIA AND THE NEW EU-TUNISIA DEAL
    A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE SITUATION IN TUNISIA AND THE NEW EU-TUNISIA DEAL

    The economic crisis in Tunisia is worsening and racist attacks against Tunisia’s Black population are again escalating. Especially in Sfax, Black people are suffering from racially motivated violence. Systematic collective expulsions to the desert of the Libyan-Tunisian and Algerian-Tunisian border…


  • ITALY ORDERED TO READMIT A REFUGEE ILLEGALY PUSHED-BACK TO LIBYA

    By Sarita Fratini On June 10th, a Sudanese refugee, victim of the illegal refoulement from Asso Ventinove merchant vessel on the 1st and 2nd of July 2018, won the case brought against part of the Italian government (Council of Ministers,…


  • THE PYLOS SHIPWRECK
    THE PYLOS SHIPWRECK

    Investigation by Forensic Architecture “On 14 June 2023, the Adriana, a boat leaving Libya for Italy with hundreds of migrants on board, sank inside the Greek Search and Rescue (SAR) zone in the Mediterranean Sea. This would become the deadliest…


  • EVERYTHING IS IN MOTION
    EVERYTHING IS IN MOTION

    Tunisian lessons on Lampedusa and ambivalences of an open situation in the Mediterranean “The goal is for the Mediterranean to be a calmer sea, said the Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio Tajani on the eve of signing the memorandum of…


  • “SAR 3”: A FAST-DEVELOPING REGION FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE
    “SAR 3”: A FAST-DEVELOPING REGION FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE

    In the previous edition of ECHOES, we highlighted the growing concerns regarding a potential collaboration between Italy and Eastern Libya, which could lead to an anticipated increase in pullback operations within the “SAR3” region. Shortly after the visit of the…


  • MAY 2023
    MAY 2023

    1 May After Alarm Phone received and forwarded several distress calls to authorities and NGO‘s, the Geo Barents (Médecins Sans Frontières) is able to rescue 299 people from a huge overcrowded fishing vessel and 36 people from a small fiberglass…


  • JUNE 2023
    JUNE 2023

    1 June The Mare*Go performs her first rescue of 36 people who tried to reach Lampedusa. Italian authorities ordered to disembark the survivors in Trapani which is a day of sailing away. For not complying but instead disembarking the survivors…


  • “IF WE STAY HERE, WE ARE GOING TO DIE”
    “IF WE STAY HERE, WE ARE GOING TO DIE”

    Struggles of Refugees in Tunisia The Refugees in Tunisia protesting in front of the UNHCR headquarters in Tunis, March 2023 On April 11th 2023, the refugees and migrants who were carrying out a sit-in in front of the offices of…